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- catalog abstract "Technological artefacts and biological organisms evolve by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. This analogy is explored systematically, for the first time, by a team of international experts.".
- catalog contributor b11342280.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-346) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Evolutionary thinking -- Evolutionary models for technological change / John Ziman -- Biological evolution : processes and phenomena / Eva Jablonka and John Ziman -- Lamarckian inheritance systems in biology : a source of metaphors and models in technological evolution / Eva Jablonka -- Selectionism and complexity / John Ziman -- Evolutionary phenomena in technological change / Joel Mokyr -- Selection criteria and selection processes in cultural evolution theories / Richard Nelson -- Part II. Innovation as a cultural practice -- Technological evolution and involution : a preliminary comparison of Europe and Japan / Alan MacFarlane and Sarah Harrison -- Stasis in complex artefacts / Gerry Martin -- Gothic tales of spandrels, hooks and monsters : complexity, multiplicity and association in the explanation of technological change / David Turnbull -- Path dependence and varieties of learning in the evolution of technological practice /".
- catalog description "Paul A. David -- Part III. Invention as a process -- Invention and evolution : the case of Edison's sketches of the telephone / W. Bernard Carlson -- The evolution of adaptive form / David Perkins -- Real-world variation-selection in the evolution of technological form : historical examples / Walter G. Vincenti -- Learning to be inventive : design, evaluation and selection in primary school technology / Joan Solomon -- Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy / Geoffrey Miller -- Part IV. Institutionalized innovation -- Recursive practice and the evolution of technological knowledge / Edward Constant -- The concept of 'design space' / Rikard Stankiewicz -- Artefact <-> activity : the coevolution of artefacts, knowledge and organization in technological innovation / James Fleck -- The organization of innovative enterprises / Gerard Fairtlough -- Part V. Technological change in a wider perspective --".
- catalog description "Technological artefacts and biological organisms evolve by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. This analogy is explored systematically, for the first time, by a team of international experts.".
- catalog description "The evolution of war and technology / Edward Constant -- Learning about technology in society : developing liberating literacy / Janet Davies Burns -- An end-word / All contributors.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 379 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521623618".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "600 21".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology)".
- catalog subject "T173.8 .T363 2000".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Evolutionary thinking -- Evolutionary models for technological change / John Ziman -- Biological evolution : processes and phenomena / Eva Jablonka and John Ziman -- Lamarckian inheritance systems in biology : a source of metaphors and models in technological evolution / Eva Jablonka -- Selectionism and complexity / John Ziman -- Evolutionary phenomena in technological change / Joel Mokyr -- Selection criteria and selection processes in cultural evolution theories / Richard Nelson -- Part II. Innovation as a cultural practice -- Technological evolution and involution : a preliminary comparison of Europe and Japan / Alan MacFarlane and Sarah Harrison -- Stasis in complex artefacts / Gerry Martin -- Gothic tales of spandrels, hooks and monsters : complexity, multiplicity and association in the explanation of technological change / David Turnbull -- Path dependence and varieties of learning in the evolution of technological practice /".
- catalog tableOfContents "Paul A. David -- Part III. Invention as a process -- Invention and evolution : the case of Edison's sketches of the telephone / W. Bernard Carlson -- The evolution of adaptive form / David Perkins -- Real-world variation-selection in the evolution of technological form : historical examples / Walter G. Vincenti -- Learning to be inventive : design, evaluation and selection in primary school technology / Joan Solomon -- Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy / Geoffrey Miller -- Part IV. Institutionalized innovation -- Recursive practice and the evolution of technological knowledge / Edward Constant -- The concept of 'design space' / Rikard Stankiewicz -- Artefact <-> activity : the coevolution of artefacts, knowledge and organization in technological innovation / James Fleck -- The organization of innovative enterprises / Gerard Fairtlough -- Part V. Technological change in a wider perspective --".
- catalog tableOfContents "The evolution of war and technology / Edward Constant -- Learning about technology in society : developing liberating literacy / Janet Davies Burns -- An end-word / All contributors.".
- catalog title "Technological innovation as an evolutionary process / edited by John Ziman on behalf of the Epistemology Group.".
- catalog type "text".